Residential building energy demand reduction in India (RESIDE)

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Not Cross-cutting
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Prof R Gupta
Sch of the Built Environment
Oxford Brookes University

Standard

EPSRC

01 November 2017

30 June 2023

68 months

£772,178

Energy

South East

Newton Programme

Prof R Gupta, Sch of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University

Dr TJ Chatterton, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England
Professor JF Nicol, Low Energy Architecture Research Unit, London Metropolitan University
Dr S Oliveira, Computing Engineering and Maths Science, University of the West of England

Project Contact, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), Kenya
Project Contact, International Institute of Information Technology, India
Project Contact, Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), India
Project Contact, Jamia Millia Islamia University, India
Project Contact, Society for Development Alternatives, India
Project Contact, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (MNIT), India
Project Contact, Unique Dream Builders Pvt. Ltd., India
Project Contact, Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), India
Project Contact, Heer Realty Ventures Private Limited, India
Project Contact, Bosch (aka Robert Bosch GmbH), Germany
Project Contact, Aayojan School of Architecture and Design, India
Project Contact, Barclays Bank plc
Project Contact, Fenesta, India
Project Contact, Nirma University, India
Project Contact, The Glass Academy, USA
Project Contact, Salesian College, Darjeeling, India
Project Contact, Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ISHRAE), India
Project Contact, Schneider Electric SE, France

The RESIDE (Residential building energy demand reduction in India) project will help support the improvement of living conditions for millions of Indian citizens through establishing the knowledge base to develop a residential building code for high quality, low-energy housing across all five climatic zones in India.The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of architects, engineers, digital scientists, urban planners and behavioural researchers to assess all aspects of the residential energy use problem, including performance of the building fabric; in-home appliances including heating, ventilation and air conditioning; indoor environment and occupant behaviour.RESIDE will undertake surveys and monitoring of energy consumption in 2000 homes spread across the five different climatic zones in India in order to build up a new, open access database for policy and practitioner communities in India and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In 10% of these homes, we will also trial and evaluate a Smart Home Energy Management System, to be designed within the project, to enable householders greater control over their comfort and energy consumption.These activities will be used to develop low-cost monitoring and post-occupancy evaluation protocols suitable for the Indian situation. This will not only improve Best Practice, but allow a framework by which consistent data can be collected and added to the RESIDE database. Using novel techniques developed by the project team for assessing the potential up-scaling of individual household measures and actions to a neighbourhood level, RESIDE will explore and establish protocols for assessing the potential for, and likely benefits of, widespread take up of energy efficiency and rooftop solar technologies at a community scale.By engaging with a wide range of stakeholders involved in planning and construction throughout the project, and by undertaking an extensive review of policy experiences in similar countries, the RESIDE project will establish the key factors essential for consideration in the development of a new residential building code for India. Then, building on the extensive data collected through the project, and a set of co-design workshops, the project will develop a proposed framework for a new residential building code.

06/02/19